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Rated Lexicon for the Simplification of Medical Texts

Authors:
Anaïs Koptient
Natalia Grabar

Keywords: Medical and Health Text; Simplification; Lexicon; Paraphrases; Readability; Readability scores; Patients.

Abstract:
The purpose of our work is to create a rated lexicon in French useful for automatic text simplification of medical texts. Currently, the lexicon contains 11,272 pairs {technical term; paraphrase} for 6,937 different terms. This lexicon is built automatically using different methods. It is validated manually. Then, the lexicon is rated with several readability formulas and models in order to appraise the readability of terms and paraphrases. The lexicon will be exploited and tested within automatic simplification systems, and will be made available for the research community.

Pages: 11 to 17

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: October 18, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8491

ISBN: 978-1-61208-834-1

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020